Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Anna Nicole Smith

Tourists and television news crews gather at the entrance to the ocean-side home of the late Anna Nicole Smith in Nassau, Bahamas February 25, 2007. Visitors to the Bahamas can sunbathe, snorkel, golf, gamble and shop. Now there is a ghoulish new tourist attraction: touring the sites connected to deceased former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith. REUTERS/Hans Deryk

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Anna Nicole tour is new Bahamas attraction

By Matthew Bigg

NASSAU (Reuters) - Visitors to the Bahamas can sunbathe, snorkel, golf, gamble and shop. Now there is a ghoulish new tourist attraction: touring the sites connected to deceased former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith.

Since the larger-than-life Smith died on February 8, many of the tourists who disembark from cruise liners at Nassau each day have been asking for the "Anna Nicole tour" as part of their day on New Providence island, according to taxi drivers.

"It's sad that she died but we don't look at the negative. There are persons in the taxi industry who are making money because people come here asking to go to the house, the cemetery and the hospital," said Burcil Anderson, a taxi driver waiting in a line of minivans at the port. More...

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Anna Nicole Smith's mother visits her granddaughter Dannnielynn

Anna Nicole Smith's mother Virgie Arthur finally got what she’s been wishing for, for weeks… a visit with her granddaughter. Virgie was granted permission to visit 5-month-old Dannielynn in the Bahamas on last night. She visited Dannielynn from 8-9 pm last night at Horizons, Howard K. Stern's current accommodations. More...

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